6.5.1.5 Deferral Rules

Deferral Accounting Rules are used to report earnings/costs which should be assigned to a later Accounting Period. For example, you decide to bill a Media Campaign in advance of the actual run time. In this situation, you receive income in an accounting period, that should be assigned to a later one. Deferral rules establish where this cost/revenue should be reported and can be used to create the necessary Accounting Records accordingly.

One campaign item record will be reflected in one accounting record including all its information on debtors and payment terms, etc.

For accounting records type 'revenue' amount equals N2, whereas the accounting records type 'cost' amount equals TpcAmount.

There are two different types of Deferral Rules

  • Deferral - Cost -  this is used to define the rules for deferral creation related to costs

  • Deferral - Revenue - this is used to define the rules for deferral creation related to revenue

Set up your Deferral Rules

In order to create a rule, you need only to give your rule a name. To ensure the rule creates the correct Accounting Record, and it is matched to the correct Campaign Item, you can optionally enter the following:

  • Account Number, Cost Center, Internal Order, etc

  • A validity period

  • If this is a Third Party Rule, please enter a TPC Account

  • The applicable Publisher Payout Condition

  • Dunning Block - check this checkbox if you like to block dunning for a rule. This field gets also copied into your Accounting Record

  • Optionally, you can also add a description



Define the Matching Criteria

Here you can define the relevant matching criteria for your rule. Read more in the Accounting Interface Matching & Transfer Fieldlist.

Depending on which process deferral rules are used in, they can make following Accounting Records:

Accounting Rule

Process

Accounting Record Type (Debit/Credit)

Accounting Rule

Process

Accounting Record Type (Debit/Credit)

Deferral - Cost

Deferral Creation

Deferral - Cost

Deferral - Cost

Deferral Reverse

Deferral - Cost - Reverse

Deferral - Revenue

Deferral Creation

Deferral - Revenue

Deferral - Revenue

Deferral Reverse

Deferral - Revenue - Reverse